He also threw up log breastworks through the heavily wooded country, and his lines, bristling with artillery and defended now by six score thousand men, extended along a front of six miles.
Jackson's division lay in the Wilderness before Hooker, but out of cannon shot.

All along that vast front hundreds and hundreds of pickets and riflemen on either side were keeping a vigilant watch.

Jackson and his staff had dismounted and were eating their suppers around one of the campfires.

The general was again impassive.
After the supper Harry walked a little distance and found the Invincibles, resting comfortably on the trodden undergrowth.

The two colonels had preserved the neatness of their attire, and whatever they felt, neither showed any anxiety.